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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by mannerheim on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:24AM (#34449574)
Well, that's the personnel involved in the operation, and you need supporting personnel as well, and of course you need to be able to run these operations should anybody else get the same idea as the Czechs and the Hungarians...

Maintaining an empire ain't cheap.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by jojobas on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:32AM (#34449615)
Well maybe, if they didn't devote 25% of everything to keeping everybody under their thumb, they could maintain their living standards high enough for people to not want out?
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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by mannerheim on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:35AM (#34449627)
If they didn't devote 25% of everything keeping everybody under their thumb, that would have shrunk their economy considerably if anyone actually escaped.

Which we eventually witnessed.

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